- This is the brand new Apple Magic Keyboard
with built-in Touch ID.
You see it?
It's right there.
It's touch ID, yeah.
This was the keyboard that was announced
with the brand new 24-inch M1 iMacs earlier this year.
A lot of people wanted to get this new keyboard
for their existing Macs without buying a new computer.
And now you actually can.
So let's take a quick look at this keyboard.
We'll pair it to my MacBook Pro,
and we'll talk about some
of the frequently asked questions I got
about this keyboard from a previous video.
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Hey, I'm Jerry.
And, in a previous video,
I got a lot of questions about the Magic Keyboard
with Touch ID that came with the 24-inch iMac.
And I'm going to address those in just a moment,
but first I want to take a look at the keyboard
that you buy standalone from Apple.
Inside the box, you have the regular Apple packaging
that you would expect.
It's simple and plain, and there's not a lot in it.
You, of course, get the keyboard
with the brand new Touch ID sensor.
It's got a Lightning port on top,
along with the power switch and a cutout slit
for the Bluetooth connection.
You also get a braided, color-matched
USB-C to Lightning cable inside the box as well.
And I really am happy that Apple is including
these braided cables with their accessories lately.
I think that they're a little bit more durable
than the previous Lightning cables,
a little bit more flexible,
and when you wrap them up and tie them up
and put them in a bag,
they're a lot easier to straighten out afterwards
without having kinks or bends or whatever in them.
Unfortunately, the only color that you can get
for the new standalone keyboard with Touch ID
is silver and white,
unlike with the new 24-inch iMacs.
Now, if you compare this standalone Magic Keyboard
to the keyboard that you get with the 24-inch iMac,
you can see that they are exactly the same.
So if you buy the silver iMac,
this is the keyboard you're going to be getting.
They have the Touch ID sensor at the top right,
if you buy the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID,
and you get all of the new same buttons.
Compared to the previous generation Magic Keyboard,
which is slightly different, of course,
there's no touch ID button at the top right.
You still have the old eject key,
and nothing on F5, F6,
versus the new dictation button and do not disturb
and Siri search button right there.
So you do get a couple of changes,
and then physically they are the same width,
the same height, the same depth.
However, the corners on the new version
are more rounded than the previous generation.
So if you have accessories
that hold the Apple Magic Keyboard,
they should still work with the new versions
because they're the same dimensions,
except for a more rounded corner.
Pairing the new Magic Keyboard
to an M1-based Mac is pretty simple.
You can do it one of two ways.
First, with a keyboard turned on,
you can go to System Preferences, go to Bluetooth,
find the keyboard down at the bottom, and then hit Connect.
Then you just follow the normal Bluetooth pairing process
for any keyboard.
However, you can also just take the Lightning cable
that you have, plug it into the keyboard down below,
plug it into your computer,
and instantly your keyboard is now connected
and paired to the Mac.
So now, if we go to System Preferences,
we should have this Touch ID setting in here now.
Even if you're using an M1-based Mac Mini
that doesn't have native Touch ID,
this setting should now show up for you.
So go inside the Touch ID settings,
and we're going to add a fingerprint,
which the pairing process is exactly the same
as you would expect
from any %ouch ID-based Mac or iPad or iPhone,
where you just kind of raise and lower your finger
on the Touch ID sensor
to get all the different angles of your fingerprint.
But when you first set up the keyboard with Touch ID
to a new Mac, you have to do a hardware pairing.
So this is going to tell us here in just a moment
that we basically need to double-press the Touch ID button
built into the Mac.
Now, if you're using an iMac or a Mac Mini,
it's going to tell you to double-press the power button
on the Mac, and that's going to create
kind of a hardware handshake
between the computer and the keyboard
to make sure that you actually want
to pair those two devices.
So I'm going to double-press that power button
to initiate that hardware handshake between the devices.
Now I can go ahead and register my finger
like you would assume.
So I'm going to raise and lower until the computer gets
enough angles of my finger, and great!
So we are done.
So now I am all paired with my second finger
using the external Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
Now, as you can see,
there's still my first original fingerprint here
that I set up with the built-in Touch ID
on the MacBook Pro because the fingerprint data is stored
on the secure enclave on the M1 itself.
You can use either fingerprint that I've set up,
either in the built-in Touch ID or on the external Touch ID.
So now to lock the computer,
you're just going to go ahead and press down
on the Touch ID sensor.
It's an actual physical button.
You just press down, and it will lock the computer for you.
And then to unlock it,
you just rest your finger on the sensor,
and your computer will unlock.
All right, so that's a super simple pairing process
to connect the new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
to your M1-based Mac.
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And the number one question that I've gotten about this is,
will it work with an iPad Pro or iPad Air
or any iPad at all?
Yes.
And no.
Yes, the new Magic Keyboard will work
as a regular Bluetooth keyboard for an iPad.
You can type on it.
You can do keyboard shortcuts,
but you can not use Touch ID from the Magic Keyboard
to an iPad.
It just will not work.
It will not unlock the device.
It will not authenticate Apple Pay or anything like that.
The next question I've got was,
will this work with the M1 Mac Mini?
Yes.
This magic keyboard with Touch ID will work
with the M1 Mac Mini, just like any other M1-based Mac.
So MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac,
and the Mac Mini will all work just fine
on this external Magic Keyboard.
The next question is,
will the magic keyboard with Touch ID
work with any previous Intel-based Mac,
and just like the iPad Pro, yes and no.
So you can pair the keyboard to any previous Intel Mac
MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro, whatever,
and it will work just fine.
However, Touch ID will not work.
The Touch ID sensor will only work on an M1-based Mac.
Next, people wanted to know is the keyboard backlit,
and no, just like the previous version of Magic Keyboard,
there is no backlight on these keyboards.
Which is unfortunate, and I'm still surprised
that Apple has not added a backlight
to their external keyboards.
It's a little disappointing.
I would prefer it, even if had a shorter battery
and I had to plug it in more often to recharge it.
I would prefer a backlight on these keyboards.
There's some great third-party options that do that,
like from Logitech, but on this one, no backlight.
Somebody also asked if you can do fast user switching
from the Touch ID sensor, and actually the answer's yes.
It's pretty cool.
So if you have multiple accounts on your computer and
different Touch ID profiles set up for each person,
you can, with the push of the Touch ID sensor,
switch between profiles,
using a finger that's registered for that other account,
and you can go back and forth pretty easily.
And it works really well.
I like it.
Now, the one thing about that though,
is that you do have to have those accounts
actually logged in.
So if the account hasn't already been logged in,
you can't switch profiles just
by hitting the Touch ID button.
You actually have to go to the lock screen,
switch users, log that user in,
and then you can switch between the two accounts.
Then one other question that I got,
which was not frequently asked,
but more interestingly asked was,
can you use this keyboard wired with USB
and have Bluetooth turned off on the computer?
And so I tested it.
And the answer is yes.
So if you connect the keyboard with the Lightning cable,
I can now go to Bluetooth and disable it.
And the keyboard is still working,
which is great because now you can have a wired keyboard
and not worry about
any potential Bluetooth connectivity issues.
All right, so that is the new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
that you can buy standalone from Apple,
without buying a whole iMac.
You can use it with your M1-based Macs,
and you can use it with other devices as just a keyboard
without the Touch ID.
Pairing is super easy.
And once you're set up, you are good to go.
If you still have questions or comments
about this Magic Keyboard with Touch ID,
let me know in the comments below.
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